2021 08 01 tweets
RT @NEH_ODH: Did you know: Digital humanities projects like @humcommons have received @NEH_Challenge grants to support infrastructure deve…
This has managed to be a whole week of Are You Effing Kidding Me,.
Replying to @kfitz
Yes, it’s only Thursday afternoon. We got a whole week of it into three and a half days.
Replying to @annehelen
Not at all. Back in February, I was all “once I’m fully vaccinated I can…” and so plans could be made. Last week someone asked me about Thanksgiving and I’m all 🤷🏻♀️
This is heartbreaking. And devastating to consider the number of people today who are so deeply solipsistic that they won’t even do the absolute minimum necessary to protect others. https://twitter.com/CRBerginMD/status/1423899543721058304
I often get asked to speak or write about why the university should focus on open infrastructure development. From now on, I think I’m just going to point everyone to @boone: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-5R4a156hA&feature=youtu.be
Replying to @boone
I always knew that guy was smart. But it’s amazing to hear him lay it out like this.
Replying to @FranoisLachanc2 and @boone
I certainly hope so.
I’ve said several times that I want to take a sabbatical to focus on reading. But here’s the more specific thing I think I mean: I want to put every sense of productivity down for a while and just read without any goals involved.
Replying to @kfitz
I don’t want to read for research. I don’t want to read to assess or evaluate. I just want to read to read.
Replying to @kfitz
And I think behind that is the enormity of all of our exhaustion right now. I want time without projects. Time just to absorb and recharge without feeling like something has to come out of it.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Serendipitous and slow sounds exactly right!
Replying to @FranoisLachanc2
Hmm. Perhaps!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Sara Ahmed’s on my want-to-read list, too, along with a bunch of Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai and Maggie Nelson. All of which I’ve been putting off because it wasn’t *for* something, which is sad. It’s just for itself, which is all I want.
Replying to @story645
I… wow.
RT @story645: @kfitz twitter's algorithm is something else 🙃
Replying to @airplanereading, @BloomsburyLit, @BloomsburyAcad and @HouseOfNaqvi
My pleasure! It’s a wonderful book, and I’m really looking forward to being able to recommend it to colleagues.
Replying to @martin_eve
Thinking about you, Martin — I’m glad you’re at least starting to get some answers, and hope that you get home safely and comfortably!
You know, when our dumpster fire of an interim president resentfully submitted his two weeks notice, the board of trustees accepted the letter of resignation but made it effective immediately. Just saying.
Replying to @meganeabbott, @sallynyc, @Hyperbolyst and @PutnamBooks
MEGAN!!!!! 🍾🥂🎉❤️❤️❤️
Replying to @BerondaM and @levarburton
Truly.
This. It’s so great to be unreservedly happy about someone’s utterly deserved success! @tressiemcphd https://twitter.com/atrubek/status/1425813725509001220
Replying to @tressiemcphd
Yep. Shawn Graham \(@electricarchaeo\) has been working on this and it’s seriously grim. https://twitter.com/electricarchaeo/status/1426216017605414913
Replying to @JustusNieland and @Criterion
I… 👀
RT @alexabrown: Is someone talking too much in a meeting? A relative trying to give you unasked for advice? May I suggest my 4-year-old’s p…
RT @martin_eve: I have been invited to join the technical advisory group of Humanities Commons, the platform behind the MLA's subject repos…
Replying to @martin_eve
You certainly aren’t. And I’d say that calling arXiv an experiment \(after it’s just celebrated its 30th anniversary\) is a problem as well.
I took a few days off work for a pre-semester long birthday weekend, and spent most of it off of this site as well. Much as I missed some of you \(SOME of you\) the time away was pretty delightful.
Replying to @kfitz
I read more things I wanted to read, I thought about things I wanted to think about, and did a lot less worrying about things I can’t control.
Replying to @kfitz
So I’m thinking pretty hard right now about my social media usage, what it’s good for, and what it’s not good for.
Replying to @kfitz
I wish there were a better way to determine what “connected enough” looks like, and to sort of fiddle with the knobs to turn the volume up and down as needed.
I’m reading an amazing work of critical theory originally published in 1990 and am suddenly cast back to that moment when the ultimate insult that could be levied at your work was that it was “reductive.”
Replying to @martin_eve, @paulwalk and @terrainsvagues
CORE is currently Fedora-based, but we have an upcoming project that will explore its future — specifically in conjunction with COAR Notify!
Pondering the Commons and its role in preventing the spread of misinformation today. I’d love your input. https://team.hcommons.org/2021/08/25/misinformation-and-the-commons/
I am delighted to announce that we are hiring two \(TWO\!\) full-time team members to help expand Humanities Commons: a community development manager focused on bringing new organizations and institutions into the network… https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/507682/specialist-outreachfixed-term
Replying to @kfitz
Please help spread the word! Review of applications for both positions will begin on September 7. The full position descriptions are linked above, but feel free to get in touch with me, or with our search committee chair, if you have questions!
Replying to @kfitz
…and a user engagement specialist focused on facilitating active participation among Commons users. https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/507722/specialist-outreachfixed-term
RT @james3neal: Very excited to learn that @lesliekwchan and @kfitz are two of the keynote speakers for the upcoming virtual @HeyOpenEd Co…
RT @terrainsvagues: I'm a little biased, sure, but @humcommons is a great, mission-driven platform devoted to providing open, sustainable i…
Replying to @EthanWatrall
We’ve had clouds of them waiting outside the house. I can’t even sufficiently DEET myself to get out and deadhead my beds.
Replying to @EthanWatrall and @finnarne
From mLive. This was six weeks ago… and they just keep coming. https://www.mlive.com/weather/2021/07/youre-not-crazy-mosquitoes-are-terrible-in-parts-of-michigan-right-now.html
Replying to @billhd, @EthanWatrall and @finnarne
The day I opened my mailbox and a small cloud of mosquitoes flew out of it was NOT a happy day.
Sixteen years ago I worked out my Katrina stress in part through several days of live blogging what was happening inside my brain. https://kfitz.info/katrina/
Replying to @kfitz
My family is still in southeast Louisiana, battened down and waiting. Sending all my prayers that way.
Thinking a lot today about how all these years later we’re still reaping the whirlwind the Bush administration sowed.
RT @humcommons: We're looking for two new team members! Interested in becoming the Community Development Manager or the User Engagement Spe…
Replying to @kfitz
Ida turned just a hair to the east late last night, so the storm didn’t pass directly over BR. And being to the west of center, BR caught the “clean” side, after the storm’s counter-clockwise spin dumped most of the wind and rain.
My parents live in Baton Rouge, about 80 miles WNW of New Orleans. I finally heard from them a little while ago — they’re safe, operating on generator power, with only spotty cell/phone service.
Replying to @kfitz
NOLA and surrounding parishes caught the “dirty” side of the storm, being east of center. I’m praying for all my friends and family there — because if my mother’s Ida was the scariest storm ever, I cannot imagine what they experienced.
Replying to @kfitz
And even so, she said just now that Ida was the scariest storm she’s ever been through.
Replying to @kfitz
My mother's been through a lot of hurricanes in the 50 years she's lived in southeast Louisiana. She's well inland — though less inland than she used to be — and she's well prepared.
Replying to @profwernimont
Me too — thanks so much!
Replying to @SheilaABrennan
It is something — it really caught me off guard!
Replying to @SheilaABrennan
God, yes. I keep remembering the day after Katrina thinking “boy, that was close!”… and then hearing the news. Trying not to hold my breath now.
Replying to @kfitz
By the by, if you’re looking for a way to help, lots of folks have posted good options \(including the Cajun Navy\). My own personal go-to is the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, who do enormous good serving an 11-parish region. https://brfoodbank.org
RT @elotroalex: We're still accepting nominations and applications for the next @DHQuarterly General Editor (Ok, I'm gonna level with you.…
Replying to @lgmerchant
I’m so glad to hear! ❤️
Replying to @kwazana
It’s scary as all heck. ❤️
Replying to @Openreflections, @mitpress, @noahjspringer, @annotated_sci and @llisonvano
Congratulations!!! This looks fantastic.
This. It’s true of writing. It’s true of speaking. It’s true of a wide range of kinds of work that some of us might be privileged enough to do for love, but that others need to survive. https://twitter.com/scott_bot/status/1432694842782535681
Replying to @darth
Look that dog walks on water, I would not mess with them.
A reminder about these two open positions. We start reviewing applications soon — make sure yours is in! https://twitter.com/kfitz/status/1430881651740008450